Welcome back to another year of Dante gatherings, dinners and Italian language classes!

Kicking off this year’s schedule is a presentation by Dominick Minotti (Nick) on “Famous Women of Italian Descent”. This will be the preview of the Festa Italiana quiz that Nick has been creating for the past few years to use at our booth. The September 11th presentation at Dante, however, will be a straight forward talk about the 10 women – six well known, two less known, and two probably new to most Dante members – that Nick will be featuring in this year’s Festa quiz.

Nick is a longtime member of Dante and for the past few years has served as a Consigliere on our Board. He’s been a speaker at Dante for the past several years, always entertaining and engaging.

Joyce Ramee will be our cook so the evening promises to be delicious as well as informative.

As usual our Pre-Dante Pasta Dinner will be ready at 6:30 and the program will start at 7:30. Please feel free to bring an antipasto, dolce, or vino to share. The cost of the dinner is $8 per person or $15 per couple.

If you plan to come for the dinner as well as the presentation, please make your reservation by 5:00 pm Monday September 9 by:

  • clicking on the DINNER RESERVATION button below or,
  • calling our Reservation Line at our NEW number, (206) 289-0419 or
  • emailing your request to our NEW reservation email, reserve.

Let us know how many are in your party. This will help our volunteer cooks know how much pasta to prepare.

The meeting will be in the Parish Social Hall at St. Patrick’s Church, 815 E Edgar St., Seattle.

To reach St Patrick’s from the North, follow I-5 S. Take exit 168A for Boylston Ave toward Roanoke St. Merge onto Boylston, turn left at light onto E Roanoke St. Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave E.

To reach St. Patrick’s from the South, follow I-5 N. Take exit 168A for Lakeview Blvd E. Turn left onto Lakeview Blvd E, and continue onto Boylston Ave E. Turn right at the light onto E Roanoke St. Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave E.

The parking lot will be on your right off Harvard. And the door to the Social Hall is located at the parking lot level in back of the Church.

Feel free to come early to help set up the room and start visiting. And, in any case, please come.

A presto –

Dan DeMatteis,

President, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington